How did I fail?
By believing in and worshipping God, He will provide you with real objective meaning and purpose to your life which will give you greater and deeper joy in your life. In addition, studies have shown that living according to Christian principles causes you to be more law abiding, improves your marriage and sex life, and even live longer among other things.
By failing to show that the Christian god exists.
Do you have any support at all that worshipping God provides:
Taking on any cultural sociological lifestyle does that. The secret is not Christianity. The secret is the structure and strength found in culture itself. Christianity is just an inherited artifact. Chinese find peace, relationship, law, and long life in belonging to their culture... the Buddhist culture.
No, if the universe is a created entity, the creator can make it pretty much however He wants. Just like a novelist can make his novel rational or irrational. But because the actual Creator Himself is logical and in fact, Logic Himself, He would only create a logical universe. While He could not make a square circle, He theoretically could make duck into a stapler if He so chose. Some people believe that even humans can make a man into a woman, but of course they cant.
I'm afraid He can't, he can't make a universe with square circles, or with ducks that are staplers, because they would either be ducks, or staplers, but not both at the same time.
Bit of a false analogy. A novelist can make a novel with logical inconsistencies, but God can't make square circles or married bachelors.
What do you mean, God is logic? That makes no sense.
Then you miss the point, God turning a duck into a stapler isn't logically inconsistent, but, before God makes the duck a stapler, what is it? Whilst a duck, is it a stapler?
Do you think then that the Right to Freedom of Religion is built into us by the creator? The creator whose first commandment is: "I am the Lord thy God Thou shalt have no other gods before me."
Well, so far everything points in the direction of a supernatural creator, since our lifespan is finite, we cant waste our lives waiting for some new investigation to improve our knowledge either against the supernatural or for the supernatural before we take the minor risk and chance to try to communicate with Him. And then you may find that He really is there. There is enough evidence at present to take that rational chance.
Can you at least admit that the laws of nature violating behavior of UFOs opens the door to the possibility of the existence of the supernatural?
I can demonstrate that the Christian God probably exists and therefore if He exists then it is a fact that our rights are built into us as His image bearers.
How can I move something we have never discussed before? The biblical kind fits genus better than species. An ancient hebrew would be more likely to be able to differentiate genera than species. To an ancient hebrew a wolf and a coyote would be considered basically the same kind. But a wolf and bobcat would be two different kinds.
In the Declaration of Independence he said the Creator endowed us with rights, the Deist god would never do that. Remember he just creates the universe and then leaves it alone. In addition, his grandson said he attended church and prayed regularly. The deist god doesnt answer prayer, so why would he go to church and pray? I am afraid the evidence points to him being a Unitarian.
The universe also contains evil... should I infer that its creator must be evil?
Once again, this reasoning applies within the universe.
Every time you've tried thus far, you have employed a logical fallacy.
Why?
at least he's consistent
I like secrets.
Yes, their moral consciences.
No, but we can discover the objective good, and that is what Christians do when they discover God.
See above.
I can't prove it, but you can't prove you exist to others. But There is historical evidence that they were revealed by Him in written form to the ancient hebrews. And there is sociological evidence that they are built into human consciences. We can't build things into us since we can't create ourselves.
You never said anything about the creation of birds to me. But you are welcome to move the goalposts.
I assume you are referring to Genesis 2:19. The verb form used in 2:19 is the form used for a completed action. So it is correctly translated "had formed". So no contradiction there.
I was referring to humans, but you are right if you include them, they dont consider Him good. So you have to decide if you believe Christian humans or Satan and his demons.
Most people want to live according to objective reality. It may be enough for you but not for most people. So people are going to live as if morality is just opinion and that is a slippery slope toward totalitarianism.
He has told us He is the good. So once we get to know Him that is confirmed by His deeds and deeds are not arbitrary.
See above.
I don't see a contradiction either for the same reason you don't It sounds like God had already made all the birds and animals and now he was bringing them to Adam to name.